My Wife Dresses Me As A Women

My family gets together during the summer. We always go to the same lodge up in the mountains. There, my mom, her eight children (4 boys, 4 girls) and their spouses, 30 grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren all meet.

We always bring fireworks, have an overnight camp-out for the hearty adventurers, and we have one day we call "ladies day off" where the men are in charge of the meals, the cleaning, and domestic chores, and an evening of craziness.

The "ladies day off" was instituted because the women were always working and not enjoying themselves. So my brothers decided to do our chores and entertain us at the same time. They were acting like they could do our job better than we could. Then found some old aprons and with their short pants it looked like they were wearing skirts. It was turned into silliness. The next year my sister made them proper aprons and dared them to wear them. (Don’t dare my brothers to do anything. They are not shy.) These were white pinafore aprons – very frilly. They loved the aprons, and then dared each other to wear skirts underneath. Then in the evening they performed some skits to entertain us.

When our sons were old enough they were expected to help the dads with "ladies day off". We told them they did not have to join their dads with frilly aprons and girls clothes, but they were all eager to join the frilly apron club. Some of the female cousins wanted to help them with their outfits and girl’s clothes. It was so popular that the next year all the teenage boys wanted to join the frilly apron club. They prepared their girly clothes in advance. "Ladies day off" became the main event of the reunion, with a talent and beauty contest in the evening, (Some of these boys were really cute.)

Then we had to put the brakes on it. It was really getting too crazy. It was becoming the dominant feature of the reunion. All the teens were in on it, boys and girls. We had wigs, petticoats, and prom dresses everywhere. Now my brothers and sisters are talking about keeping "ladies day off" but with a host of rules to keep it under control. Perhaps just limit it to aprons. (This is not what the teens want to hear. They think that dressing up as girls is what makes this family cool.) We are also looking at introducing some new traditions that might be a fun substitute.

This sounds like great fun!!!

But wouldn’t it be so much MORE fun if the girls got to dress up as Dads?

Maybe "Dads BBQ night" (something men LOVE to do) where all the females dress up as boys, spit, talk about sports and brag about how great their meat flipping skills are….